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Thank you for considering giving to Morningside UMC. By His grace, God gives us the privilege of partnering with Him in all that He seeks to do.

We are excited to introduce electronic tithing via Checking/Savings, Debit/Credit Card. Please use the buttons below to give once or monthly. If you would like to set up a custom plan (amount, frequency, day of month, etc.) please contact: finance@morningside-nyc.com.

Please note: you will be redirected to quickclick.com, a secure site hosted by Transnational Bank. Contact finance@morningside-nyc.com or website@morningside-nyc.com if you have any questions.

Why Give?

To belong to our congregation is to be a steward. Some may say that “stewardship” is just a polite way of referring to financial giving to the church. But it’s far more than that.

One character in some of Jesus’ parables is the steward — the servant charged by the master to care for the master’s property. It is the master, not the steward, who owns the property, but the steward is responsible for it and is accountable to the master. So it is, said Jesus, between God and us. As God’s stewards we have three responsibilities:

• Receiving: We receive with joyful thanksgiving the many gifts that God showers upon us — time, talent, treasure, our bodies, our friendships, natural resources, and the beauty around us.
• Managing: We take good care of what we have received. We manage these resources wisely — for our own good and the good of others.
• Giving: Out of our gratitude in receiving so abundantly, we want to share with others. Let’s look at four kinds of gifts that we receive, manage, and share:

“Celebrating the offering is a spiritual act of worship every believer can actively participate in each week. Giving becomes a celebration when the believer discovers the joy of generosity, which grows out of God’s grace.” — Melvin Amerson, Celebrating the Offering

We may think that our financial resources are our own. But when we recall that the time, the energy, the good health, and the opportunities for employment behind these dollars are all gifts from God, we see that the funds belong to God too. We are the stewards; God is the owner. So questions about what we earn, how we earn it, how we save, spend, and give it away, are all questions of Christian stewardship.

One vital aspect of our stewardship is our giving to Christ’s work in the world. We’ve learned that giving is most effective when we commit ourselves to give a definite proportion of our income through the church. For many, this proportion is one-tenth, or a tithe. Whatever the amount, we have discovered the joy in giving to God the “first fruits,” an amount “off the top” of our income, not what’s left over at the end of the month.

Adapted from umc.org

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